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فَحَاشَا so God forbid in Arabic

فَحَاشَا is how you say “so God forbid” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

أَمَّا أَنْ يَصُدَّهُمْ عَنْ الْفَرَائِضِ الْخَمْسِ ؛ فَحَاشَا لِلَّهِ ،

As for turning them away from the five obligatory prayers, God forbid.

فَحَاشَا so God forbid

Two pieces: the connector fa- delivering the verdict 'so', and a fixed exclamation of disavowal, the classical 'far be it / God forbid'. The fa- presents this as the answer to the 'as for' raised earlier, and the exclamation flatly rejects the idea.

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